obedient

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority

   an obedient soldier

2. 2
   adj

   Willing to comply with the commands, orders, or instructions of those in authority; biddable.

   Jessica was so intensely obedient of her parents that her brother sometimes thought she was a robot.

3. 3
   noun

   One who obeys.

   Damn the obedients and hail the defiants if you will; the experiment does not motivate confidence about how particular subjects would behave in markedly dissimilar situations.

Etymology

From Middle English obedient, from Old French obedient, from Latin oboediēns, present active participle of oboediō (“obey”).